Songbird 1.10.2

An open source freeware is always appealing. As a free music player, Songbird brings nice experience of music entertainment just like a breeze. Thanks to a wide variety of flexible plug-ins, Songbird is a cross-platform and customizable player. The first thing you need to concern is the resemblance to iTunes interface – you can easily get used to this tool as long as you have played with iTunes. And if you also need to play video on iTunes without limitation, please try the FLV to MOV Conveter for mac.

Songbird works as automatically performing the actions below:

Import your music from selected folder
Monitor the chosen folder for adding music in later days
Manage your music files in a distinctive and handy catalog
Provide you with music catalog which is compatible with iTunes and Last.fm libraries
Allow you to facilitate hot keys and make the whole operation much convenient
Include album art and simple equalizer for music fans

Songbird is such a comprehensive and intelligent music player that’s hard to address issues. Note that there’s an army of developers working behind it and keep updating against the potential glitches. Therefore, the drawbacks of this tool are probably those aspects that it’s going to cover in future. But you should be aware that Songbird’s every new release may cause your plug-ins broken.

Pros

Readily to use by iTunes users
Easy to handle and seldom gives troubles
Manages your music in a distinctive catalog
Supports global hotkeys
Automatic update reminder for keeping your music folder up-to-date

Cons

Each new release may result in broken add-ons
Support for podcasts is not available yet